It's done right less than I'd like, but The Sub-Mariner belongs on this list. Arrogant, yet noble and decent. Heroic, but not necessarily a hero in service of the surface world, and not the least hesitant to serve his own people's interests at anyone else's expense. Hot-tempered, but often wise and great hearted. Truly complex since 1939.
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Lots of great picks in this thread. I can disagree with none of them. I'd like to add that Eddie Brock has come a very long way.
Do you mean complex or complicated because they have two very different meanings.
Daredevil (his history speaks for itself!)
Hulk (you can virtually anything with him:you can play the whole Jekyll & Hyde duality, you can go cosmic, phantasy, more "down to earth" - even kind of street level with Mr. Fixit -, can go just plain horror/supernatural and suspense. The theme of DID is a vital piece of the character, and you can do stories with just the interactions between the personas. This aspect alone is more than enough to justify his complexity: he always changes and evolves; new incarnations appears and others disappears. I could go on and on.
Moon Knight: the mystery about his origin and relation with a god. His personalities and the conflicts between them are fascinating, imo.
Those are what I consider the most complex. There are some layered characters, like Namor & Magneto, too!
I would say Magneto, but I would take only Claremont’s stories as well as Lobdell’s and Carey’s…
If I consider everything that has been published, it’s not complexity, it’s inconsistency…
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I think miles morales so far is more complex than peter is.
Its your opinion, but i respectfully disagree. To me, its not peter parker whos the most important character, its the hero Spider-Man, then Peter second. Third place is personally either norman osborn or hell uncle ben, a dead guys influence is peters reason for anything really even the reason for having the confidence to even date mj with knowin what that means as spidey.
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Moon Knight: the mystery about his origin and relation with a god. His personalities and the conflicts between them are fascinating, imo.
To the utmost, I agree.
Still love his series from 2014...
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
Tony Stark, Tony Stark and Tony Stark.
Wait, did I mention Tony Stark? ...Yup! Tony Stark
Yikes, my grammar has gone to ****. Rip
In terms of character appearances, after Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson makes the most appearances across all comics. Jameson is in third place but not far behind.
So those are the three most important characters in the stories. The one who appear most often and recur most often...and as such the stories are about them.